Question

The author says that "she was like the winter landscape in the mountains and exponce of pure white serenity breathing peace and contentment." Elucidate.

Answer 1

The author has used this simile to describe the all whiteness associated with his grandmother. She always wore spotless white dress. Her silver hair quite matched with the her white attire. She was very spiritual and religious. As a result she exuded purity and serenity like a winter landscape. So the author has used this simile to describe her old age, white colour associated with her, and the tranquility she spread all around with her presence!

Answer 2

Answer:

The narrator painted a beautiful portrait of his grandmother. She was old and so her skin had wrinkles and her hairs were white. Her white hair fell all over her face. She had stooped due to age. To balance her body she kept one hand on her waist. She had a very fair skin. The author considers her beauty as an attention-grabbing one. Her purity and chastity reflected in her outer beauty too. The author compares her beauty with the “winter landscape in the mountain”. He meant that as in winter the snowfall enhances the beauty of mountain and gives the whole white stretch of mountain a strange peaceful and tranquil effect in the same way grandmother enthralled the author. Just as the beauty of a mountain in winter is spell bounding, the narrator's grandmother also had a mesmerizing beauty. She was as if an embodiment of piety and purity.